Valuable Lesson...

I learned a valuable lesson, it's on par with look before you leap. So know what your hitting before you hit it. I nearly broke my elbow yesterday demonstrating a strike. Just because I thought it was a box of Dog Beds didn't mean it was. Actually it was fillled to the brim with Cattle Leg Bones and when I struck it, I really felt it, Oh boy. Lucky for me, I didn't strike it with my full force. LOL.

The Zone...

I realize something. I have truckloads of passion but there was something missing. During my thoughts and meditations while training I searched for it. What was missing. Whats so important that It's eluding me. What is one of the cornerstones of a successful martial artist. As I was going down the list and memories, One popped in my head in particular. I need to get in the Zone. That place where there is only me and my opponent. One could compare this with focus but Focus is just a part of it. I guess being in the zone could be compared with No-mindedness in a fight. When you fight de-attached and everything comes naturally and efficiantly. Time to train my mind harder. For this, I'm going to need to go back to a Dojo and spar someone strong and I mean strong. I mean at least a second degree blackbelt who's not rusty or knows his stuff extensively. It's not about winning or beating him, it's about taking apart conquering my own mind and impulses.

Last night....

Last night I actually had some really advice handed down to me. An old man gave me an old fighting tip he learned. "When your opponent expands, contract. When he contracts, expand. But, make things interesting when you're opponent expands by contracting and suddenly expanding. Hence, countering or making a sudden hostile movement. Sometimes, making the best offense is the best move for defense. And sometimes, the best defense is the best move for offense. When you get the hang of your own style, you'll understand the difference and when to do these things."

His philosophy reminded me of Bruce Lees contract and Expanding methodolody but simplified to the point of everyday yipper yap.

Damn... I saw the girl of my dreams yesterday. I hope she comes back. Even if she does like girls more then guys, she's easy on the eyes and really nice to talk to. She was so cute and seemed to like me abit too. Please be at least 18. Please be 18. *Sigh*

New stuff,,,

I'm doing something completely different now for training. From Midnight to 5am I am training since I don't sleep the night before overnight. Well, this is something I decided to do since I promised not to sit around if I could be making better use of my time.

12:00 - 1:00 ---- Basic physical activities. Squats, Pushups, situps and crunches
1:00 - 2:00 ----- Weights
30 Minute break (food and whatnot)
2:30 - 3:00 ---- Meditation and focus exercises
3:00 - 5:00 ---- Technical training and Makiwara board exercises

Quote of the day...

"Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion and the romance in a relationship.., and find out that you still care for that person."

Love is not only a feeling but a concept, something we do and something we live.

This is my Daily Video... People always ask me why I listen to this song over and over again. I could say because this song is beautiful. I could say that it has my dream Japanese girl in it. I could even say that I like the concept of the video. Though all of these is true, It's one of those, I don't have a real reason. My heart just feels better after listening to it. It's like yesterday. During the Minsok thing and after walking my friends to thier car, I needed to clear my head and the wolf in me wanted a run. So I ran. I ran to the Jack-in-a-box, around the block and back. It calmed me, made me feel better and gave me a sense of self furfillment. Furfillment in my soul of all things. Sometimes, these small things can become big things inside us that make a complete difference in our thinking and in our feelings. Not sure if this makes sense but meh, whatevers. =P

Favorite SHINee Vid...

Training Journal #2

Training Journal #2

I got one thing to say first, Screw Burpees. After 10 my wrists started that whole numbness sensation I got with normal pushups. So I tried doing them with a closed fist like I do with Karate pushups. It didn't work, I couldn't get enough lift, probably because my hands hurt from the Makiwara training. But, back to burpees, The last thing I want to do is damage my wrists so I can't use them for leading a counter for my opponents punch. So I'll hold off. Oh yeah, here's a lesson. If you do pushups, use push up bars or do them on your knuckles. It's bad for your wrist to support too much weight.

I'm punching this Makiwara board to death. There is a big gray spot on it from my punching. LOL. It's still firm but, WHOA. It looks like I'm actually putting alot of effort into this. My wounds are healing up nicely but I'm damaging my training by overdoing it. Gotta cut back. LOL.

Jumping squats are hard. I never thought it would be hard to do such an exercise. I'm having trouble keeping the pattern down. I'll just have to keep doing it until I get it right.

Stretching is a pain in the butt. My knee injury is definately getting in the way here. When try to stretch my leg, it refuses to cooperate.

Technique wise. I'm sticking to honing what I do know and restricting anymore techniques until I master what I know now. Master the quality of what I know rather then the quality.

Because I seriously damaged my wrists doing the burpees I moved Shinai conditioning to saturday before Jay's party.

Kensei

I like this song...

Poorly translated lyrics but nice never the less... =D

I'll always be by your side
I can hear your heartbeat
Today, tomorrow, at any time
There will be only one answer

Even if I can't see future
I think of you without hesitation

I Love You
I can't see anything but you
I want to tell you these feelings
I don't need words
Just smiling is enough
And one day the two of us
will make the world shining

In clear days, I spin once,
under the sky
In rainy days, I conceal it inside my chest,
the wish is changed into a song

Even if we are away from each other
Your voice is surely carried to me

I Love You
I send it only to you
A message from inside my heart
I don't have another
My eyes will continue to watch over you,
at any time
Exceeding time

Even if I can't see future
I think of you without hesitation

I Love You
I can't see anything but you
I want to tell you these feelings
I don't need words
Just smiling is enough
And one day the two of us
will make the world shining

Anywho, I was told I was too old fashioned again. I guess opening car doors for girls is out of style. LOL. I was brought up to do such things... It was proper. Well, I guess I gotta adjust and just do it for the girl of my dreams. Whomever she is...

Training...

I definately am going to warm up the Kyokushin way... It's so similar to my methods minus the splits, handstand and back arches...

Kyokushin Basic Training

You know what I dislike...

You know what I dislike... bullies. Even in this era, there are bullies out there. Yesterday at the trolley station, I witnessed something pretty messed up. A kid was being harassed by a group of punks. They were calling him, weak... a loser and even some vulgar things I can't say here. So got involved and told them to step off. I don't know if it's how I handled it but they left him alone and backed off. I was going to tell him to man up until I saw the bruises and cuts on him. Somethings are just too screwed up to man up against, at that current state, and I think it's ok to cry if you need to at certain times. I gave him some encouragement and I hope he gives me a call if he considers my offer. Even if he doesn't I referred him to someone who could...

Training is getting tedious. I can barely type on this keyboard. That board feels like I'm hitting a piece of concrete now. My fists look like red lumps of meat. Kinda makes me hungry. lol.

All this training is taking me back to training with Eric and some of the guys. The encouragement from them is flowing out even 5 years later. I gotta keep moving.

Kensei

Kensei

Some people always get my name confused... Of course, Kensei is referred to as a swordsmen. Someone who is a master of the sword. In Traditional Japanese, Kensei means literally, "Sword Saint." If you go to a different dialect of Japanese, meaning Okinawan... Ken literally means "Fist." So Kensei in Okinawan means, "Fist Saint or Saint of Fists." So thats my Kensei, The Okinawan meaning. The most ironic thing of all is that after that summer of calling myself Kensei an anime by the name of Kenichi, Histories Strongest Disciple came into view with two characters named Kensei. It sorta made me laugh. Why do all my nicknames have to be anime related? =P

But back to the Kensei topic... It's funny how this came along. I was training at the CKF one day around 2004, and a kid who Sifu let join us that day fought me. The kumite ended at 2 minutes and he won by a few unorthadox moves I've never seen before. Not to mention, he hit hard as if he wasn't wearing gloves. Anywho, we got to talking and he told me about his Goju-ryu Okinawan Karate background and how he admired my spark so he called me, Kensei, for my quick movements and the fact that I told him my views on violence... He never did come back to our studio again. Mostly because of he was looking for something less sporty. Pity since I liked him. He was pretty awesome.

Kensei

1st Training Journal....

I decided to write training entries to remind myself of my progress since I'm pretty forgetful. =P

Training Journal #1

Alright, I've done it. I've been hitting this Mariwaka board for two days straight or so and I busted my hands up pretty bad. It's a normal process but it hurts. LOL. I mean It's bleeding and everything. I guess using my Dit Dat Jow for Wing Chun and Choy Li Fut to deaden my hands before training helped me bypass my pain threshold.

Flexability wise, I need work. I'm going to buy a stretching machine to do full splits sooner or later.

Strength wise, I'm a heavy hitter until I get winded, I need to control my strength and increase my stamina via heavier cardio.

Energy wise, I've been able to control my Chi easier then when I was in Chinese Kenpo. Mostly because of mental conditioning I've been putting myself throuhgh. My punch and kicks have more snap and less hesistation and that is probably a side effect of my mental tweaking.

Body conditioning Via Shinai is working out well. I'm going to get Tucker to help me with heavier hits since I can only hit myself so hard with half the stick. The bruises from last session are already gone but some pain still lingers in my forearm.

Kensei

New Journal....

New Journal... Best not make the same mistakes with this one.

Today has been a riddling of putting up my new makiwara board, working with it and just general cleaning. Hopefully, the rain will let up tommarrow and monday so I can get some roadwork done and get my cardio in order.

So yeah, I've been staying off Facebook for awhile. It's a complete distraction and I have to recover emotionally and mentally from some experiences that were just too hard on me. Well, it's like they say, what doesn't kill you will make you stronger, right?

But, to tell you the truth, that phrase must be true. I feel a hell of alot better.

Kensei